-The Times of India Commerce minister Anand Sharma deserves our sympathy. Driven by the way India's domestic politics is playing out, he is fast emerging as the person who has become the face of the country that, in Bali, threatens to kill WTO's Doha round after 12 years of fruitless negotiations. It need not be this way. India needs to show more flexibility at this moment as long-term consequences of a...
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Willing to settle for deal on 8 out of 10 issues at WTO meet: India-Sidhartha
-The Times of India BALI: With a consensus at the World Trade Organization remaining elusive till early afternoon, India on Thursday said that it has no problems with a deal on eight of the 10 subjects on the table and would not be averse to the idea of further negotiations on the contentious food security and trade facilitation issues in Geneva if an agreement is not reached here. While there are few...
More »Sharma Slams Reports of Politicisation of Food Security -Rajesh Rai
-Outlook Bali: Dismissing the suggestion that India was insisting on food security because of the ensuing general elections at home, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma today said New Delhi was only pursing an old proposal and stressed that "no agreement" would be better than a bad one. The Minister, at a packed press conference, made it clear that New Delhi was not prepared for any compromise on the food security issue,...
More »Food Security Non-Negotiable: Sharma to WTO Members -Rajesh Rai
-Outlook Bali: In a development that has increased the risk of collapse of Bali talks, India today in a strongly-worded message to the WTO members said the food security issue is "non-negotiable" for New Delhi. Addressing the plenary session of the 9th Ministerial Conference of the WTO, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said the Bali package must be substantive, and historical imbalances in trade rules must be corrected to ensure a...
More »India not to compromise on food security at WTO ministerial meeting: Anand Sharma
-PTI BALI: On the eve of WTO ministerial meeting here, India on Monday said the interim solution on food security as currently designed is not acceptable and the country won't compromise its farmers' interest or succumb to mercantilist ambitions of rich nations. There is a national consensus and complete political unanimity on this matter in India, commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma said, adding: "It is therefore difficult for us to accept...
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